Well I would steer clear from PT 10 at the moment since its not the most stable, I would go with PT 9 instead... and Mbox honestly sucks ass. The converters in that thing are horrible, stick with Apogee or Prism for interfaces or even the new Apollo interface looks promising with UAD plug ins

oh im still going to be using reason, was thinking of re-wire with pt, but mostly i want pt for recording and mix/mastering audio, my lexicon omega audio interface is a bag of shit and i cant get it to link with my software to record. Im using adobe audition 3.0 at the moment for mix/mastering, but i cant even record. from the reviews on the net abpout the MBox pro tools, it seems really good but for £500 i need more thyan just good reviews before i decide on it. the pro tools im getting with it, is pt 9 and it comes with the upgrade to 10